The first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines.

Part I. Introducing Early Christian Letters: 1. Continuities and changes in the practice of letter-collecting from Cicero to late antiquity Bronwen Neil; 2. Rationales for episcopal letter collections in late antiquity Pauline Allen; Part II. Collecting New Testament and Early Monastic Letters: 3. The Pauline letters as community documents Ian J. Elmer; 4. 2 Corinthians and possible material evidence for composite letters in antiquity Brent Nongbri; 5. The letter collections of Anthony and Ammonas: shaping a community Samuel Rubenson; 6. From letter to letter collection: monastic epistolography in late antique Egypt Malcolm Choat; Part III. Collecting Early Bishops' Letters: 7. Letters of Ambrose of Milan (374-97), Books I-IX J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz; 8. The letters of Basil of Caesarea and the role of letter collections in their transmission Anna Silvas; 9. The ins and outs of the Chrysostom letter collection: new ways of looking at a limited corpus Wendy Mayer; 10. The letters of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: personal collections, multi-author archives and historical interpretation Adam M. Schor; Part IV. Collecting Early Papal Letters: 11. Collectio Corbeiensis, Collectio Pithouensis and the earliest collections of papal letters Geoffrey D. Dunn; 12. De profundis: the letters and archives of Pelagius I of Rome (556-61) Bronwen Neil.